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BBC switch to Premiere?
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On a side note, we are thinking of going over to PP at our place and we called a few agencies to see how many PP freelancers they had. The response was not encouraging. Out of 3 agencies, 2 of them said they had about 10-20 freelancers who knew PP, and the third had never even heard of it (!?)
It hasn’t totally discouraged my head of production (she remembers when it was hard to find FCP editors) but it has made everyone else a bit nervous about switching. It becomes harder for me to sell the switch when as far as our big 3 agencies are concerned there are only about 20-30 competent professionals in the city.
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sure, of course – that stands to reason. 6 isn’t even out yet. anyone who is going to be premiere is say six months or so away from being premiere in anger? FCP7 will take quite a while to bleed out anyway.
The point though is that switching to premiere as you put it there… involves booting up PPro CS6, which you presumably will have anyway. And it just sits there gathering steam while you ride out FCP7 and roadtest CS6. Runs on the same hardware, can (more or less) speak to the same input video hardware and monitoring, I think its the natural successor to FCP in a broad range of FCP scenarios because it was built specifically to replace FCP. And it was built by Adobe, who know how to put this stuff together.
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You’re right.
These things take time and frankly, I don’t know what I’d do if we suddenly went ALL PP ALL THE TIME overnight. I’m an FCP boy and I need a while to adjust anyway. I think the best course of action is to install CS6 on a couple of seats and for me to lead the way in editing as much as possible in PP and be patient while we wait for the rest of the industry to catch up. Assuming that this is in fact the direction the industry is heading. We could end up high and dry in 12 months time with a shop full of PP suites and no freelancers to use them.
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me FCP boy too – a pretty substantial shift to premiere wouldn’t surprise me greatly – it looks the ticket to me, and its got a fair bit of a head of old steam going on – proof in pudding though – if we all sit down to it and find ourselves rocking away fairly merrily in a couple of weeks, then that’ll probably start to accumulate as a shared experience.
If it tastes as good as the spec sheet, GUI and trimming tools look – we’re all going to start saying it to each other aren’t we? If it becomes self evident that it’s up for it, and its the easiest reach over from FCP… …..well, we’ll see – we won’t know for months yet probably?
I just got a full retail license design premium CS5 for two hundred and fifty quid off gum tree – that’s me upgrading to production premiere before may 7th to 5.5 for 380 quid and getting 6.0 into the bargain.
Don’t anyone please ask me what I was using before this. It was shameful but now I am legit –
thus do we see the power of CS6.https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos
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I just need to chime in here about broadcasters. BBC might be different though…
Finance departments usually don’t approve blanket licenses. Usually single licenses.If BBC does buy master collection to save money rather than premiere pro then I would have to send in my CV.
Ewan
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Hello Neil…long time since Roseman days…I believe this was an Adobe Press Release as they supplied premiere for free
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yup
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Was down at the Beeb this week and the hot word from my source in the knob twiddling dept. was that two peeps from Adobe in California had been to see the engineers to discuss Prem Pro. FCPX has not even been considered.
From what I understand the engineers at Beeb are might concerned about the time that FCP7 takes to render HD programming, given then it is only 32 bit and does not make optimal use of all the cores on the Mac. “30 mins to render and 8 minute film…ridiculous”. The other reason that Beeb like the cut of PP’s jib is that cross platform thing…Mac’s will be dumped in favour of cheaper PC’s
Keep it under your hat though…
Andy Johnstone
Wild Dog Limited
film & multimedia production
http://www.wilddogworld.com
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